High School Homeschool Program: General Information

Global Village School is an fully accredited school (WASC) based in southern California and founded in 1999. It is a distance learning program, which means that students study at home (or, in special cases, at learning centers),  working in concert with their home teacher and their GVS teacher. Students take a regular course load and high school students earn credits toward a diploma. Transcripts are provided so that students can apply to colleges of their choice.

Enrollment

Enrollment in Global Village School gives you access to teacher support and the administrative services of an official private school. If you haven't already, please be sure to explore all of the K-8 pages to get a sense of the enrollment, curriculum, and tuition options that are available to you. If you are not interested in enrollment but do want to use our curriculum please see our curriculum only page.
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​So I don't think it's too far fetched to say that GVS and your wonderful curriculum will have played an important role in the greening of a whole province.

HS parent
Basic steps in the Global Village School enrollment process:
  • Contact Global Village School. Please tell us a bit about your family and your child's education experiences along with your enrollment preferences in terms of level of teacher support (tuition) and most recently completed grade level. If you are more comfortable speaking with someone by phone to initiate the enrollment process or ask questions, please call us at 805-646-9792.
  • Enrollment forms: After you have contacted GVS, a staff member will send you enrollment forms upon request. Complete parent and student enrollment forms for each child and submit via email.
  • Registration Deposit: For students that are new to our high school program, you will pay a $100 new student registration deposit that covers some of the cost of new student enrollment counseling, transcript reviews and the learning styles profile. This deposit is non-refundable and will be applied toward the cost of the enrollment fee. 
  • Transcripts: For students who have previously attended high school, review our graduation requirements. We will ask for copies of transcripts for previous years so that we can determine what courses need to be taken in order to graduate. If the student has been homeschooled for previous high school years we will need documentation of their studies.
  • Enrollment appointment: Prior to completing enrollment we will schedule an enrollment counseling appointment by phone or video conference (for full enrollment; may not be needed for limited enrollment). Your educational advisor will work with you to enroll your family, help you select a curriculum and tuition options, answer your questions, and provide you with additional information about our high school program. Please be sure to include your phone number in your email and on the parent enrollment form. We will use email to schedule the phone call.
  • Order form and fees: GVS will send you an Order Form with the itemized details of your fees. Remember that sales tax (CA residents only) and shipping and handling charges may apply.
  • Payment: You will make a payment based on the information in the GVS Order Form. The administrative office will begin processing your order for shipping (if applicable) and assigning GVS teachers once your method of payment has cleared. Processing times vary depending upon the season; your GVS enrollment advisor can give you a time estimate. You will receive a shipping notification (if applicable) and teacher assignment notification via email.

While we want to move everyone through the enrollment process as quickly as possible, we also want to make sure we cover each step thoroughly and end up with the best path forward for your family. It's a detailed process, and chances are we are moving through it with other families concurrently. Enrollment processing done right takes time. There are things you can do to keep things on track:

  • Read all documentation carefully, and fill out forms completely the first time.
  • Return documents and respond to calls and emails quickly. If you take several days or weeks to return your enrollment forms, for example, then there will probably be several other families that will have started enrolling in the meantime, and they may now be ahead of you in the queue. 
  • Start the process early – at least a month ahead if possible. If you know you want to enroll, don’t wait to get started.  Assuming everything moves back and forth promptly, please allow at least three weeks, from our receipt of your enrollment forms, to completion of the process when teachers are assigned and your child is officially enrolled.                   If there are any delays or if there are changes made late in the process, you can expect enrollment to take longer. In most cases you will need to order a number of materials, so if you live in an area where shipping is slow or otherwise problematic, you will need to allow even more time before you can get started.

Please note that we are a selective admissions program - applicants go through a review process and are not automatically enrolled simply by virtue of applying or speaking to an enrollment advisor.

How the Global Village High School Homeschooling Program Works

  • Schedule: We are a year-round school. While our standard school year runs from September to June, students can enroll at any time of the year and can continue working through the summer if they wish. The high school program is designed to be completed in four years. Students who wish to accelerate their progress are free to do so.
  • Official records and diplomas: When you enroll in Global Village School you become part of an official private school. We will maintain all student records, along with providing written evaluations, a yearly transcript, and a diploma upon high school graduation.
  • Teacher support: Each high school student is assigned a teacher for each course. Our teachers are knowledgeable, compassionate, supportive, and committed to the vision of the school. Teachers provide support, oversight and review of coursework.
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​I’m very thrilled that we’re doing this...I’m stunned. I never imagined that it would be like this. Where did we get the idea that we had to turn over our kids to strangers?

HS parent
​Students can submit work either via regular mail or e-mail. Families are in regular contact with their teachers and can contact them by phone, Skype, and e-mail, or schedule in-person appointments if possible (if you live near your teacher or are willing to travel). Along with regularly scheduled appointments, teachers are happy to answer questions when they arise. The amount and frequency of teacher services you receive depends on the level of tuition you choose. Please view our high school tuition options.
Curriculum: Our regular curriculum is designed to allow students to be self-paced. Students can collaborate with their teachers to moderately customize their studies during the course of the semester, and completed customized plans are also available (see below).

High school students are free to choose from Web-based or text-based courses; most prefer to take some of each. Each year-long course is divided into thirty-six lessons, and semester-long courses are eighteen lessons. Students access their Web-based lessons by downloading them from our password-protected Web site. Web-based lessons are entirely or primarily based on online reading/viewing assignments. Text-based courses are accompanied by a printed study guide and are entirely or primarily based on books.

If you feel that your family needs completely customized curriculum please read more about it to see if this option is right for your family.
Next Steps:

Learn more about High School program fees.

Just want curriculum to use on your own? Check out our page about purchasing curriculum only.

Contact us

If there is anything else you need, please investigate the links at the top of this page.